How to Use preparatory school in a Sentence

preparatory school

noun
  • There is a reason why preparatory schools and finishing schools emerged.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Her first lessons at the preparatory school came during three weeks of initial basic training.
    — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Combs is the first woman to lead the 112-year-old college preparatory school for boys.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Combs is the first woman to lead the 112-year-old college preparatory school for boys.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The college preparatory school is open to students grades K-12.
    — Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • His classmates at the boys’ preparatory school in the Bronx didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to play.
    — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Seven students at the Gilman School, a private all-boys preparatory school, made the list.
    — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The coming-of-age series centers around a group of young women attending a preparatory school in Gilead.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The 6-foot-10-inch junior center sat the first three games of the season while applying to preparatory school.
    — Nathaniel Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Oxbridge Academy is a private preparatory school for grades 6-12.
    — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 17 May 2024
  • He was educated at an elite preparatory school in Nigeria, then at Yale and Harvard.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There is no Ardua Hall and aunt training (at least not yet), and Daisy is sent to shadow Agnes at preparatory school.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Five black cadet candidates at the academy’s preparatory school in Colorado Springs had found racial slurs written on the message boards on their doors.
    — Herman Wong, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Catholic Memorial, a private high school, was founded in 1949 as a college preparatory school.
    — Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The college preparatory school will offer an advanced high school diploma with pre-AP and AP courses.
    — al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Students are invited to apply for a full four-year scholarship to the Grauer School, an independent college preparatory school.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Wolf admitted his in-season transfer to the East Coast preparatory school stems from the uncertainty about basketball in Illinois.
    — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The trailer depicts the duo navigating Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, where obedience is instilled into the young female students.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Located in Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Schools is consistently ranked as one of the leading college preparatory schools in the country.
    — Jay Grossman, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Police said the victim, a fellow student at Harvard-Westlake School, one of the nation’s most prestigious college-preparatory schools, was left with a broken leg and a broken nose.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The show follows Agnes (Infiniti), the daughter of a high-ranking commander enrolled in an elite preparatory school run by Aunt Lydia (Dowd).
    — Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Agnes attends a preparatory school run by Dowd’s Aunt Lydia, who watches over the daughters of Gilead’s elite both literally and in the form of a towering statue in the school’s atrium.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • It is set at an elite preparatory school to groom future wives, made up of daughters of Commanders, many of whom have been taken away from their birth parents, and so-called Pearl Girls, recruited from outside of Gilead.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The series follows Agnes, played by Infiniti, and Daisy, played by Lucy Halliday, who navigate a preparatory school in dystopian Gilead.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Jesuit was founded in 1963 as the capital region’s only all-boys Catholic college preparatory school and has a student body of 953 as of the current school year, according to its website.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Sugar Bowl Resort confirmed that many of the people on the trip were connected with Sugar Bowl Academy, an elite ski and snowboarding preparatory school in Donner Pass.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Located in Lisle, Illinois, Benet Academy is a private Catholic college preparatory school that competes in the East Suburban Catholic Conference.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • This new spinoff of The Handmaid’s Tale follows Agnews (Chase Infiniti of One Battle After Another) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), young women at Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • This new spinoff of The Handmaid’s Tale follows Agnews (Chase Infiniti of One Battle After Another) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), young women at Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • This new spinoff of The Handmaid’s Tale follows Agnews (Chase Infiniti of One Battle After Another) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), young women at Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026

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